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Vannevar Bush with Differential Analyzer

Vannevar Bush

American engineer

Otis Boykin

American electrical engineer and inventor

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American inventor

Charles Steinmetz.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

American engineer

Reginald A. Fessenden.

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden

Canadian scientist

Armstrong, Edwin H.

Edwin H. Armstrong

American inventor

Steve Wozniak in 2014

Steve Wozniak

American electronics engineer

Zworykin, Vladimir

Vladimir Zworykin

American engineer and inventor

Jack Kilby

American engineer

Aleksandr Popov, detail of a painting by P.D. Korin

Aleksandr Popov

Russian engineer

Claude Shannon

American engineer

Martin Cooper

American engineer

Harold Rosen

American engineer

Robert Kahn

American computer scientist

Jay Wright Forrester

American engineer

Paul Baran

American electrical engineer

Seymour Cray

American engineer

Rahman, Hosain

Hosain Rahman

American entrepreneur

Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887

Werner von Siemens

German electrical engineer

Harry Nyquist

American physicist